Kramer8u
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vmware server 2 (linux) to vmware WS 6.5(windows)
Im wondering what i have to do to get a vmware virtual machine i run on my ubuntu tls server under vmware server 2 to run on VMWare Workstation on a XP Box.
2 issues:
I copied the whole directory onto a HD the copied onto the XP machine , when i opened the *.vmx file it opened the VM.
But when i tried to start the image it comes up with a couple of errors
file needed to load this vm is missing . it seems to not like the vmkd file(s).
Or after i tried in vain to convert it from 6 to 6.5 when it tries to load the harddrive file i think its the *.vmdk file it just keeps poping up that it cant find it , i select it again and it still doesn;t like the file. When i look at the file the drive size = 0.0 . its like it cant recognize it. also after conversion i get and'configuration file data is invaild' or something close to this.
Its an vm of my old 2k3 windows server , which ran on an old adaptec scsi card (UW) on a 8gig cheetah seagate. otherthan the scsi config its pretty standard.
im very new to VMWare.
Is it because the server doesn;t allow for copying to other machines or does the free linux flavour not migrate easily to windows vmware or shoudl i be using player instead of workstation . im confused what am i doing wrong please help !!
Kramer
2 issues:
I copied the whole directory onto a HD the copied onto the XP machine , when i opened the *.vmx file it opened the VM.
But when i tried to start the image it comes up with a couple of errors
file needed to load this vm is missing . it seems to not like the vmkd file(s).
Or after i tried in vain to convert it from 6 to 6.5 when it tries to load the harddrive file i think its the *.vmdk file it just keeps poping up that it cant find it , i select it again and it still doesn;t like the file. When i look at the file the drive size = 0.0 . its like it cant recognize it. also after conversion i get and'configuration file data is invaild' or something close to this.
Its an vm of my old 2k3 windows server , which ran on an old adaptec scsi card (UW) on a 8gig cheetah seagate. otherthan the scsi config its pretty standard.
im very new to VMWare.
Is it because the server doesn;t allow for copying to other machines or does the free linux flavour not migrate easily to windows vmware or shoudl i be using player instead of workstation . im confused what am i doing wrong please help !!
Kramer
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Problem solved ..
Though the problem was my stupidity.
When i first installed the VM i had a "flat file" of the server i created in VMware converter.
When i Moved the folder for some strange reason I decided ( so i wouldn't get confused). to rename the Flat file to .old so as to distinguish the right file from wrong, Needless to say there is a reference to the file in the config file and all it was doing was telling me that it couldn't find this file i had deliberatley remaned ... der !!!
FFS anyway thankyou all for your input
Though the problem was my stupidity.
When i first installed the VM i had a "flat file" of the server i created in VMware converter.
When i Moved the folder for some strange reason I decided ( so i wouldn't get confused). to rename the Flat file to .old so as to distinguish the right file from wrong, Needless to say there is a reference to the file in the config file and all it was doing was telling me that it couldn't find this file i had deliberatley remaned ... der !!!
FFS anyway thankyou all for your input
Nice to hear that you have finally resolved the problem :)
ASKER
But that doesn't help my issue , snapshots is this whats causing my problem ? i did try to delete the 1 snapshot but it wouldn;t let me as i found a post online suggesting it may be because of this.,,
za_mkh:
Ill try to convert it on the actual sever today and see how i go
Kramer